Topics: Food Security

Blog

Resilience in complex food crises: The case for building better evidence

Posted on 19/10/2020 by Hanna Paulose, Jonas Leo Heirman, Paul Christian, Chloe Fernandez

In 2019, the world recorded 135 million "acutely food-insecure people in crisis or worse". More than three quarters of them lived in countries...

Report

Tracking progress on food and agriculture-related SDG indicators 2020

This year marks the 10-year countdown to the end-date of the 2030 Agenda. According to the data contained in the FAO report, collected before the...

Blog

How has Covid-19 affected data quality in the agriculture sector? Highlights on a recent e-Panel

Posted on 21/09/2020 by ETHEL SIBANDA

An e-Panel, co-hosted by AVANTI and EvalForward, set out to explore this question. Our panellists, Armand Zoa, Joas Tugizimana and Tim Njagi, shared...

Brief

Review of monitoring and evaluation capacities in the agriculture sector

Issued on 2020 by FAO

The Review of monitoring and evaluation capacities in the agriculture sector carried out by the Office of Evaluation of FAO with EvalForward aimed at...

Event

Data quality in agriculture and food security in the time of COVID-19

online, Jul 21, 2020

AVANTI and EvalForward will host an e-Panel discussion on “Data quality in agriculture and food security in the time of COVID-19” on Tuesday 21 July...

Blog

Global development indicators are not just numbers

Posted on 13/07/2020 by Olivier Cossée

On July 13th, the 2020 edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World was presented by its authors - FAO, IFAD, WHO, WFP and UNICEF...

Evaluation Synthesis

Lessons from Evaluations: Responding to Food Security during Covid 19

Under the framework of the Covid-19 Evaluation Coalition, Global Affairs Canada, FAO, IFAD, WFP and other agencies identified key lessons that should...

Discussion

How can evaluation help improve data quality and policies on food security during Covid-19 pandemic?

Posted on 18/05/2020 by Tim Njagi

There has been a huge constraint in collecting data due to Covid-19 pandemic: depending on countries situation, data on food production, prices, trade...

Blog

Evaluation in the age of big data: Opportunities and challenges in agriculture and food security

Posted on 16/04/2020 by Michael Bamberger

Most evaluations require adjusting methodology to real-world constraints, whether they be economic, technical, organizational, political, or related...

Blog

Measuring resilience-building in Karamoja, Uganda

Posted on 04/02/2020 by Rebecca Pietrelli

I was recently involved in a mid-term evaluation of a multi-agency 2016-2020 programming to enhance resilience in Karamoja, the least-developed region...

Event

EvalForward webinar on the revised evaluation criteria

Online, Feb 12, 2020 - Feb 12, 2020

EvalForward is organising the webinar: Evaluation criteria: what's new and what changes for agriculture and food security? 12 February 2020 15:00 - 16...

e-learning

Sustainable Food Value Chains for Nutrition

Free e-learning course of 3 hours developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the World Food...

Blog

Can agriculture and food security policies be effective when statistical data is unreliable?

Posted on 04/06/2019 by Emile Nounagnon HOUNGBO

In conducting research presented at the AfrEA Conference, I was asking myself if the persistence of hunger and poverty in Africa was not related to...

Discussion

What can we do to improve food security data?

Posted on 04/06/2019 by Emile HOUNGBO

Statistics usually play a vital role in supporting policy. It is critical to ensure the credibility and reliability of the data we use, given that...

Report

The State of the World's Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture

Biodiversity for food and agriculture is the subset of biodiversity that contributes in one way or another to agriculture and food production. It...

Event Proceedings

Investing in evidence to end hunger. A closer look at national opportunities.

This brief summarizes the WFP event Investing in evidence to end hunger. A closer look at national opportunities held during the EvalMENA Conference...

Blog

What are your evaluation challenges?

Posted on 05/11/2018 by Hynda Habchi Krachni

The latest discussion in the EvalForward CoP covered challenges that evaluations encounter in the agriculture, rural development and food security...

Blog

Improving Agriculture and Food Security through Evaluation

Posted on 16/10/2018 by Aurelie Larmoyer, Renata Mirulla

Call now open for the 9th AfrEA International Conference.

Discussion

Challenges of evaluation

Posted on 15/10/2018 by Hynda Habchi Krachni

Good evening everyone, I work at the Algerian Ministry of Finance and recently joined this Community of Practice. I would be particularly interested...

Discussion

The issues facing global agriculture

Posted on 03/10/2018 by Emile HOUNGBO

Dear members, When evaluating agriculture-based interventions, do you agree that as evaluators we should address globally facing burning issues, as...

Blog

EvalForward moving ahead at EvalColombo2018

Posted on 24/09/2018 by Renata Mirulla

EvalForward first public launch took place at EvalColombo 2018. What are the expectations of the broader evaluation community?